Sermons from March 2017

Sermon on John 9:1-41 We live in an age of scientific miracles. It’s true. Think about how far medical science has come in just a generation. Think of all the progress we have made in transplants and implants, prosthetics and artificial limbs. We are very close to being able to grow our own organs in…

Sermon on John 4:5-42 I think about water way more than I used to. I mean, we’re surrounded by it here, right? There are all these bodies of water, all these types, I’m learning about all sorts of them—bayous and bays, estuaries, deltas. Salt water, fresh water, brackish water. I’ve learned here that a “rain…

So I’m stuck in traffic this one time and I was right behind this big tractor trailer truck. I’m guessing you’ve been in this position before… On the back of the trailer, there’s the usual stuff—the company’s name, the how’s my driving sticker, and in the corner in simple but plain letters: John 3:16. So…

What do you think the devil looks like? It’s a question to ponder because in today’s Gospel reading, we get no physical description of the devil—a.ka. the tempter or Satan or (as the name means in Hebrew) “the adversary.” How did this adversary appear to Jesus? What did he look like? I certainly don’t know…perhaps…